Mabel McCoy Mystery Books in Order

The Mabel McCoy Mystery series follows Mabel McCoy, a widow who owns a tea shop on Grimm Island, South Carolina. Mabel has spent years presenting herself as a picture of Southern gentility, but she is much tougher, sharper, and more curious than strangers first assume.

Grimm Island keeps its secrets under Spanish moss.

The opening novel, Skin and Bones, introduces Mabel's shop, The Perfect Steep, and her new role in a community where murder has a way of pulling people together. She is joined by Dash and a group of older amateur investigators whose experience, opinions, and refusal to be sidelined make them useful partners in a case.

These are cozy mysteries with a Southern island setting, eccentric local characters, and a heroine whose life did not end when tragedy changed it. Mabel has a past, a business to run, and enough common sense to know that clues do not solve themselves. Her investigations bring her into contact with gossip, old grudges, and the quieter forms of danger that can hide inside a close community.

The series has a warm, humorous tone, but it takes its crimes seriously. Mabel's connections and the team's different skills make the cases feel collaborative rather than solitary. There is room for tea, friendship, vintage style, and dry humor alongside the puzzle.

Begin with Skin and Bones, then continue with A Bone to Pick, Chilled to the Bone, and Bone of My Bones. Reading in order lets readers follow Mabel's new life on Grimm Island and the growing group around her.